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S1 E1 The Boston Tea Party (Pilot, Part I)

Children & Family

TV-Y7

23m

Feb 8, 2002

Moses, James, and Henri travel to Boston in search of Sarah, who has arrived from England on a tea-laden ship.

Season 1, 40 Episodes

Season 1 (40 Episodes)

Liberty's Kids - The Boston Tea Party (Pilot, Part I)

The Boston Tea Party (Pilot, Part I),

Moses, James, and Henri travel to Boston in search of Sarah, who has arrived from England on a tea-laden ship.

Liberty's Kids - Intolerable Acts (Pilot, Part II)

Intolerable Acts (Pilot, Part II),

Moses, James, Sarah, and Henri hide at poet Phillis Wheatley’s house in Boston, where some of His Majesty’s soldiers are being quartered.

Liberty's Kids - United We Stand

United We Stand,

Moses lets James report on Congress; James learns about the ugliness of mob rule.

Liberty's Kids - Liberty or Death

Liberty or Death,

James, Sarah, Henri and Moses travel to Virginia, where they witness Henry’s speech.

Liberty's Kids - The Midnight Ride

The Midnight Ride,

Sarah and James travel to Boston to deliver a message to Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren and end up riding with the famous messengers.

Liberty's Kids - The Shot Heard 'Round the World

The Shot Heard 'Round the World,

James, reporting on the minutemen, and Sarah, with the British army, witness the shot heard round the world at Concord Bridge.

Liberty's Kids - Green Mountain Boys

Green Mountain Boys,

James heads to the Grants to report on their struggle. Sarah goes hoping to find a place in the Green Mountains for her family to settle. Henri goes hoping to find maple syrup.

Liberty's Kids - The Second Continental Congress

The Second Continental Congress,

Sarah and Moses meet George Washington and together use Yankee ingenuity to fix Washington’s carriage.

Liberty's Kids - Bunker Hill

Sarah searches for a British officer who may know her father’s whereabouts.

Liberty's Kids - Washington Takes Command

Washington Takes Command,

Sarah, James, and Henri travel to Massachusetts with Washington and see him pull together the diverse group of men into a Continental army.

Liberty's Kids - Postmaster General Franklin

Postmaster General Franklin,

When Patriot mail falls into the hands of the British, James and Sarah agree to carry important letters safely to New York.

Liberty's Kids - Common Sense

James, Sarah, and Henri meet Thomas Paine and learn of his belief that the common man can rule himself.

Liberty's Kids - The Turtle

The kids, thinking they’re reporting on the sighting of a sea monster in New York Harbor, instead meet David Bushnell, the father of the submarine.

Liberty's Kids - The First Fourth of July

The First Fourth of July,

Shortly after the Declaration is signed on July 4th, a massive British fleet enters New York Harbor.

Liberty's Kids - New York, New York

New York, New York,

In New York City, Sarah stays with her mother’s friend Mrs. Radcliffe and reports on the loyalist point of view.

Liberty's Kids - One Life to Lose

One Life to Lose,

The kids, at first unimpressed with Nathan Hale, get deeply inspired by the man’s words and deeds.

Liberty's Kids - Captain Molly

Sarah travels to Fort Tryon and meets the courageous Captain Molly, who takes up her husband’s cannon when he falls.

Liberty's Kids - American Crisis

American Crisis,

Washington knows he must win a battle or the revolution will fail from lack of public support.

Liberty's Kids - Across the Delaware

Across the Delaware,

The country celebrates; morale is restored. James and Sarah are concerned when a British spy named John Honeyman is captured.

Liberty's Kids - An American in Paris

An American in Paris,

While visiting Abigail Adams in Boston, Sarah finds herself in the middle of a smallpox epidemic and, after being inoculated, contracts a bad case of the disease.

Liberty's Kids - Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington,

Sarah sees Benedict Arnold battling for respect with the same passion he uses to battle the British.

Liberty's Kids - Lafayette Arrives

Lafayette Arrives,

News of his great courage helps the American cause in France. Henri meets Lafayette, who becomes his idol.

Liberty's Kids - The Hessians are Coming

The Hessians are Coming,

James witnesses the victory at Saratoga while lashed to a Hessian soldier.

Liberty's Kids - Valley Forge

James, Sarah, and Henri are there as George Washington and his Continental Army endure a horrible winter at Valley Forge.

Liberty's Kids - Allies at Last

Allies at Last,

James learns about religious freedom from Moses Michael Hayes, while Sarah and Henri spend time with British troops in occupied Philadelphia.

Liberty's Kids - Honor and Compromise

Honor and Compromise,

George Washington arrives just in time to rally his troops to victory.

Liberty's Kids - The New Frontier

The New Frontier,

Sarah is reunited with her father in Ohio.

Liberty's Kids - Not Yet Begun to Fight

Not Yet Begun to Fight,

Sailing to England, Sarah is shipwrecked and saved by Jones.

Liberty's Kids - The Great Galvez

The Great Galvez,

James and Henri sail down the Mississippi, seeking Galvez.

Liberty's Kids - In Praise of Ben

In Praise of Ben,

Henri gets into a scrape with a Tory boy when the Tory makes disparaging comments about Ben Franklin.

Liberty's Kids - Bostonians

Sarah and Henri join the Adams family in Massachusetts just as John and his son John Quincy return from France and are reunited with Abigail.

Liberty's Kids - Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold,

James, Sarah, and Henri are there when Arnold tries to hand West Point over to the British.

Liberty's Kids - Deborah Samson, Soldier of the Revolution

Deborah Samson, Soldier of the Revolution,

Sarah meets the courageous Deborah Samson. James and Henri, accompanying Washington, meet Rochambeau.

Liberty's Kids - Conflict in the South

Conflict in the South,

Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson is forced by Benedict Arnold to abandon the Governor’s residence in Richmond.

Liberty's Kids - James Armistead

James Armistead,

Sarah and Henri go from camp to camp with Lafayette as he jousts with Cornwallis, then worry over the fate of James Armistead.

Liberty's Kids - Yorktown

Moses joins the American mining corps and tries unsuccessfully to find Cato.

Liberty's Kids - The Man who Wouldn't be King

The Man who Wouldn't be King,

James tells Sarah and Henri the story of the attempted military coup and the three kids' journey to Maryland to see Washington offer his resignation to Congress.

Liberty's Kids - Going Home

Sarah goes to New York to get the story of the fate of the loyalists from Mrs. Radcliffe.

Liberty's Kids - Born Free and Equal

Born Free and Equal,

Sarah, staying with Abigail Adams in Boston, is thrilled to see Mum Bett freed and resolves to fight for civil rights.

Liberty's Kids - We the People

Moses resolves to open a school for free black children.

Details

Liberty's Kids

Children & Family

TV-Y7

1 Season

23m

Two teenage reporters cover the events of the Revolutionary War for Ben Franklin’s newspaper, The Philadelphia Gazette.

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